Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 31829

Out-of-school Education

Tabled: 21 February 2025
Answered: 3 March 2025

Question

Damian Hinds

ConservativeEast Hampshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to clause 25 8(b) of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, whether guidance will be issued as to what would count as exceptional circumstances.

Answer

Catherine McKinnell
The references in the Children Not in School measures of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill to “education otherwise than at school” should be read in the broadest sense of the term and not solely referring to Education Otherwise Than in A School (E...

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